Genome engineering of stem cell organoids for disease modeling.

abstract：:Blastocyst complementation by pluripotent stem cell (PSC) injection is believed to be the most promising method to generate xenogeneic organs. However, ethical issues prevent the study of human chimeras in the late embryonic stage of development. Primate embryonic stem cells (ESCs), which have similar pluripotency to ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Fu R,Yu D,Ren J,Li C,Wang J,Feng G,Wang X,Wan H,Li T,Wang L,Zhang Y,Hai T,Li W,Zhou Q

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1/1000 children and over 2% of the aged population. We have previously reported that mutations in the gene encoding gap junction protein connexin-31 (C×31) are associated with HI. The pathological mechanism of the disease mutations remains unknown. Here, we show that expression of C×31 ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xia K,Ma H,Xiong H,Pan Q,Huang L,Wang D,Zhang Z

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase (cGAS) plays a critical role in host defense by sensing cytosolic DNA derived from microbial pathogens or mis-located cellular DNA. Upon DNA binding, cGAS utilizes GTP and ATP as substrates to synthesize cGAMP, leading to MITA-mediated innate immune response. In this study, we ident...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Li M,Shu HB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies are among the most effective biotherapeutics to date. An important aspect of antibodies is their ability to bind antigen while at the same time recruit immune effector functions. The majority of approved recombinant monoclonal antibody therapies are of the human IgG1 subclass, which c...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang X,Mathieu M,Brezski RJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus has become one of the most common chronic diseases, thereby posing a major challenge to global health. Characterized by high levels of blood glucose (hyperglycemia), diabetes usually results from a loss of insulin-producing β-cells in the pancreas, leading to a deficiency of insulin (type 1 diabetes)...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Kumar M,Nath S,Prasad HK,Sharma GD,Li Y

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-Nitros(yl)ation is a ubiquitous redox-based post-translational modification of protein cysteine thiols by nitric oxide or its derivatives, which transduces the bioactivity of nitric oxide (NO) by regulation of protein conformation, activity, stability, localization and protein-protein interactions. These years, more...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang X,Huang B,Zhang L,Zhang Y,Zhao Y,Guo X,Qiao X,Chen C

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that growth factor receptor-bound (Grb) protein 14 is a novel physiological modulator of photoreceptor specific cyclic nucleotide-gated channel alpha subunit (CNGA1). Grb14 promotes the CNG channel closure through its Ras-associating (RA) domain. In the current study we show that this RA domain-media...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Gupta VK,Rajala A,Rodgers KK,Rajala RV

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the largest internal organ in mammals, and is important for the maintenance of normal physiological functions of other tissues and organs. Hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and other chronic liver diseases are serious threats to human health, and these problems are compounded by a scarcity of liver donor...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Chen X,Zeng F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) as a rare type of leukocytes play an important role in bridging the innate and adaptive immune system. A subset of DCs, monocyte-derived dendritic cells (moDCs), exists in very low numbers at steady state but become abundant in inflammatory states. These inflammation-associated DCs are potent pro...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhan Y,Wu L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is one of the most complicated organ systems in invertebrates and vertebrates. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (DSCAM) of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily is expressed widely in the nervous system during embryonic development. Previous studies in Drosophila suggest that Dscam plays important...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xu Y,Ye H,Shen Y,Xu Q,Zhu L,Liu J,Wu JY

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6), a predominantly cytoplasmic protein deacetylase, participates in a wide range of cellular processes through its deacetylase activity. However, the diverse functions of HDAC6 cannot be fully elucidated with its known substrates. In an attempt to explore the substrate diversity of HDAC6, w...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang L,Liu S,Liu N,Zhang Y,Liu M,Li D,Seto E,Yao TP,Shui W,Zhou J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complement proteins in blood recognize charged particles. The anionic phospholipid (aPL) cardiolipin binds both complement proteins C1q and factor H. C1q is an activator of the complement classical pathway, while factor H is an inhibitor of the alternative pathway. To examine opposing effects of C1q and factor H on co...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Tan LA,Yu B,Sim FC,Kishore U,Sim RB

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The self-renewal and multipotent potentials in neural stem cells (NSCs) maintain the normal physiological functions of central nervous system (CNS). The abnormal differentiation of NSCs would lead to CNS disorders. However, the mechanisms of how NSCs differentiate into astrocytes, oligodendrocytes (OLs) and neurons ar...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang K,Wang H,Wang J,Xie Y,Chen J,Yan H,Liu Z,Wen T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macroautophagy is an evolutionarily conserved intracellular degradation system used by life ranging from yeasts to mammals. The core autophagic machinery is composed of ATG (autophagy-related) protein constituents. One particular member of the ATG protein family, Atg7, has been the focus of recent research. Atg7 acts ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiong J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in a highly conserved ribosome assembly factor SBDS. The functional role of SBDS is to cooperate with another assembly factor, elongation factor 1-like (Efl1), to promote the release of eukaryotic initiation factor 6 (eIF6...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma C,Yan K,Tan D,Li N,Zhang Y,Yuan Y,Li Z,Dong MQ,Lei J,Gao N

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterol-regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs) are the key transcriptional regulators of lipid metabolism. The activation of SREBP requires translocation of the SREBP precursor from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi, where it is sequentially cleaved by site-1 protease (S1P) and site-2 protease and releases a...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiao J,Xiong Y,Yang LT,Wang JQ,Zhou ZM,Dong LW,Shi XJ,Zhao X,Luo J,Song BL

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is a rare hereditary cerebrovascular disease caused by a NOTCH3 mutation. However, the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms remain unidentified. Here, we generated non-integrative induced pluripotent stem cells...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ling C,Liu Z,Song M,Zhang W,Wang S,Liu X,Ma S,Sun S,Fu L,Chu Q,Belmonte JCI,Wang Z,Qu J,Yuan Y,Liu GH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses are the causative agent of respiratory and enteric diseases in animals and humans. One example is SARS, which caused a worldwide health threat in 2003. In coronaviruses, the structural protein N (nucleocapsid protein) associates with the viral RNA to form the filamentous nucleocapsid and plays a crucial ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Ma Y,Tong X,Xu X,Li X,Lou Z,Rao Z

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is able to discriminate visual landmarks and form visual long-term memory in a flight simulator. Studies focused on the molecular mechanism of long-term memory have shown that memory formation requires mRNA transcription and protein synthesis. However, little is known about the ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang H,Hou Q,Gong Z,Liu L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate ERK5 expression in lung cancer and malignant melanoma progression and to ascertain the involvement of ERK5 signaling in lung cancer and melanoma. We show that ERK5 expression is abundant in human lung cancer samples, and elevated ERK5 expression in lung cancer was linked to the acqu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Jiang W,Cai F,Xu H,Lu Y,Chen J,Liu J,Cao N,Zhang X,Chen X,Huang Q,Zhuang H,Hua ZC

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydration is one of the key steps in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids and is vital to the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Consequently, stalling dehydration cures tuberculosis (TB). Clinically used anti-TB drugs like thiacetazone (TAC) and isoxyl (ISO) as well as flavonoids inhibit the enzyme activity o...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Dong Y,Qiu X,Shaw N,Xu Y,Sun Y,Li X,Li J,Rao Z

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli fadR protein product, a paradigm/prototypical FadR regulator, positively regulates fabA and fabB, the two critical genes for unsaturated fatty acid (UFA) biosynthesis. However the scenario in the other Ɣ-proteobacteria, such as Shewanella with the marine origin, is unusual in that Rodionov and cow...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Zhang H,Zheng B,Gao R,Feng Y

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chimeric protein called Wallerian degeneration slow (Wld(S)) was first discovered in a spontaneous mutant strain of mice that exhibited delayed Wallerian degeneration. This provides a useful tool in elucidating the mechanisms of axon degeneration. Over-expression of Wld(S) attenuates the axon degeneration that is as...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Feng Y,Yan T,He Z,Zhai Q

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging and re-emerging RNA viruses occasionally cause epidemics and pandemics worldwide, such as the on-going outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Herein, we identified two potent inhibitors of human DHODH, S312 and S416, with favorable drug-likeness and pharmacokinetic profiles, which all showed broad-spec...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Xiong R,Zhang L,Li S,Sun Y,Ding M,Wang Y,Zhao Y,Wu Y,Shang W,Jiang X,Shan J,Shen Z,Tong Y,Xu L,Chen Y,Liu Y,Zou G,Lavillete D,Zhao Z,Wang R,Zhu L,Xiao G,Lan K,Li H,Xu K

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous clonal disorder of myeloid precursors arrested in their maturation, creating a diverse disease entity with a wide range of responses to historically standard treatment approaches. While significant progress has been made in characterizing and individualizing the disease ...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Peloquin GL,Chen YB,Fathi AT

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sometimes crystals cannot diffract X-rays beyond 3.0 Å resolution due to the intrinsic flexibility associated with the protein. Low resolution diffraction data not only pose a challenge to structure determination, but also hamper interpretation of mechanistic details. Crystals of a 25.6 kDa non-Pfam, hypothetical prot...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Su J,Li Y,Shaw N,Zhou W,Zhang M,Xu H,Wang BC,Liu ZJ

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have promising applications in regenerative medicine, most of the hiPSC lines available today are not suitable for clinical applications due to contamination with nonhuman materials, such as sialic acid, and potential pathogens from animal-product-containing cell cul...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Wang Q,Mou X,Cao H,Meng Q,Ma Y,Han P,Jiang J,Zhang H,Ma Y

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) comprise two functionally distinct subsets: plasmacytoid DCs (pDCs) and myeloid DCs (mDCs). pDCs are specialized in rapid and massive secretion of type I interferon (IFN-I) in response to nucleic acids through Toll like receptor (TLR)-7 or TLR-9. In this report, we characterized a CD56(+) DC popu...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Yu H,Zhang P,Yin X,Yin Z,Shi Q,Cui Y,Liu G,Wang S,Piccaluga PP,Jiang T,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial lipopeptides play an important role in apoptosis induction of tumor cells. However, there is little knowledge about the relationship between apoptosis induction and membrane fatty acids. The present study focused on the effects of lipopeptides produced by Bacillus subtilis HSO121 on Bcap-37 cell lines. 3-(4,...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Liu X,Tao X,Zou A,Yang S,Zhang L,Mu B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptors (LILRs), also called CD85s, ILTs, or LIRs, are important mediators of immune activation and tolerance that contain tandem immunoglobulin (Ig)-like folds. There are 11 (in addition to two pseudogenes) LILRs in total, two with two Ig-like domains (D1D2) and the remaining nine with...

journal_title：Protein & cell

authors： Nam G,Shi Y,Ryu M,Wang Q,Song H,Liu J,Yan J,Qi J,Gao GF

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00